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Madeline DeFrees, Spectral Waves, poems: Feisty and haunting, the poems in DeFrees’s tenth collection range from sonnets about Elvis to lyrics about cataracts, birds, and the plants in her well-tended garden. (Copper Canyon)
Marilyn Hacker, Essays on Departure, poems: This book gathers twenty-five years of elegant, delectable work from eight books, as well as translations and new poems. (Carcanet)
Maura Stanton recommends Autumn Road, poems by Brian Swann: "Imagine D. H. Lawrence writing with a sense of humor, and you’ll have a faint idea of what Brian Swann’s rich, detail-packed, mid-twentieth-century English memoir poems are like. Swann arrives on earth about the same time as the Nazi blitz—an air raid siren announces his birth—and…
Tess Gallagher, Dear Ghosts, poems: In Gallagher’s first new collection in fourteen years, the ghosts of the past are resplendently conjured as part of the poet’s present day with signature grace. (Graywolf)
Yusef Komunyakaa, Gilgamesh, verse play: With playwright Chad Garcia, Komunyakaa has refashioned a classic Sumerian legend into a vibrant and compelling verse play. (Wesleyan)
Gerald Stern recommends Gloryland, poems by Anne Marie Macari: "Gloryland is a beautiful second book by Anne Marie Macari which explores the issue of womanhood in its literal, figurative, mythical, and theological forms. The poems are absolutely original." (Alice James)
Donald Hall, White Apples and the Taste of Stone, poems: This sumptuous volume collects 226 poems across sixty years of Hall’s celebrated career, including twenty new poems; a CD of recordings is included. (Houghton Mifflin)
Maxine Kumin, Mites to Mastodons, children’s poems: A fascinating cornucopia of poems that exudes whimsical affection for all the creatures in our kingdom. Illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski. (Houghton Mifflin)
Chase Twichell recommends Ladder of Hours, poems by Keith Althaus: “This book contains forty years of poems from a poet whose work has been seriously overlooked. Althaus’s lyrics are spare, without ornamentation, passionate, and intimate. He’s interested in the numinous underlying the ordinary, and gives us frequent surprising and memorable glimpses of it.”(Ausable)
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